Presentation provides an update on a paper on trade union investment companies and ESOPS in South Africa. The paper discusses these options for broad based empowerment in the context of concept of redistribution and predistribution in South Africa. The presentation was delivered at a webinar organised by the South Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. The paper is available at https://mistra.org.za/mistra-media/return-to-workers-trade-union-investment-companies-and-esops/